List up for consideration by City Council Feb. 28 in proposed cooperation agreement with redevelopment agency.

The city's list of redevelopment projects has swollen to nearly $4 billion and non-downtown groups think the pie should be shared more equally.

In a roundtable chat Monday, members of the San Diego Organizing Project -- a faith-based neighborhood improvement group -- said they intend to urge the city next week to reform redevelopment so that downtown's riches can be distributed where they're needed most.

Bishop Roy Dixon of Faith Chapel singled out downtown's proposed off-leash dog park as an example of an expense that deserves lower priority than affordable housing in poor parts of the city.

"That has nothing to do with blight," Dixon said.

Downtown planners said the dog park and other downtown improvements are meant to support the projected growth of 60,000 residents in Centre City over the next 25 years.

Dixon was joined in the morning interview by Claudia Dunaway, chairwoman of the Stockton Recreation Council; Susan Riggs Tinsky, executive director of the San Diego Housing Federation; Jose Arenas, executive director, and Joey McKellar, community organizer, for the organizing project; Rev. Tommie Jennings, pastor at Christ the King Catholic Church; and Vivian Toscano, office manager of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church.

They referred to a draft list circulating around City Hall that includes $3.98 billion in projects that would be included in a proposed cooperation agreement between the city and its redevelopment agency that is due to be considered next week.

Redevelopment projects' citizen advisory committees also have been meeting to itemize their priorities.

The hope is that the cooperation agreement would prevent any of the funds from being shifted to the state to lower its budget deficit next year or to schools and city and county general funds thereafter.

That shift would occur under a plan by Gov. Jerry Brown that received its first approval from a state Senate committee Friday. An Assembly committee voted to approve the fund-shift idea but not elimination of redevelopment agencies, as Brown proposes.

Although the city list includes $1.1 billion in unspecified downtown affordable housing spending between 2015 and 2033 both inside downtown and in other neighborhoods, the organizing project representatives said there is no guarantee that money would be spent outside downtown.

"If the money stays downtown, it should go to the state," Dunaway said.

Her view is that truly blighted areas need more help than downtown but that redevelopment spending continues to be concentrated there -- $2.48 billion of the total is earmarked downtown.

The organizing project representatives said they will renew their call that all 17 of the city's redevelopment projects be merged -- if the program continues -- and that spending be more equitably shared, regardless of where it originates.

Under state redevelopment law, property taxes in a redevelopment zone stay within that zone's boundaries to remove blight and promote economic development, although some funding can leak out to other areas under certain conditions.

Without redevelopment and its requirement that 20 percent of funds go to affordable housing, Tinsky said little will be left for affordable housing.

"Affordable housing will be very low on the priority lists," she said. "We've seen it for decades."